foreland

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A headland.
  2. In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
    — Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone.

词形变化

forelands plural

词汇关系

衍生词
South Foreland

词源

From Middle English foreland, equivalent to fore- + land.
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